# 30 Day Song Challenge, number 12: A Song You Like From a Band You Hate **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 11, 2016, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-12-a-song-you-like-from-a-band-you-hate/754545 "2016-05-11T13:45:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2016, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-12-a-song-you-like-from-a-band-you-hate/754545/41 "2016-05-15T07:38:46Z")
I don’t like Rush at all. I don’t see the point. But I do like [YYZ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdpMpfp-J_I). ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2016, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-12-a-song-you-like-from-a-band-you-hate/754545/42 "2016-05-15T11:24:56Z")
> [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](#): > > Well, at least _One_ was somewhat vindicated by Johnny Cash’s cover, but it’s still just not for me. Bono sings it as if he were enunciating some deep truths and insights he is uniquely privileged to access, while Cash presents it in a simple, almost naive way. The song works only in the latter case, because frankly, it’s nothing really deep. > > I think that’s maybe my biggest problem with U2: their songs just never live up to the pomp with which they present them. U2’s big message is Uplift. A hard feeling to sell within rock. Johnny isn’t selling the song with uplift; that wasn’t how Johnny was wired ;). Bruce is somewhere between the two. He’s all about Uplift but much more bittersweet vs. U2. I’m not a U2 guy, I think because I am a Social Distortion guy ;). Different world views. I’d love to hear a conversation between Bono and Mike Ness. ---
**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-12-a-song-you-like-from-a-band-you-hate/754545/43 "2016-05-18T13:33:33Z")
Not a Beyonce fan, but I do like [If I Were a Boy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWpsOqh8q0M). ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-12-a-song-you-like-from-a-band-you-hate/754545/44 "2016-05-18T14:54:51Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > U2’s big message is Uplift. A hard feeling to sell within rock. Johnny isn’t selling the song with uplift; that wasn’t how Johnny was wired ;). Seriously about the uplift. A lot of their songs sound like love poems to a woman when they’re really about God. Hmm, I always post hate Rush/love _Subdivisions_ in these threads, so I’ll go with hate Madonna/like _Live to Tell._ ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2016, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-12-a-song-you-like-from-a-band-you-hate/754545/45 "2016-05-22T02:51:30Z")
MC Hammer. Addams Grove from the first Addams Family movie. I’m sure my love of the movie helped me like the song. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqQwzgixHAM) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-12-a-song-you-like-from-a-band-you-hate/754545.md?page=2)